Unit 3 test Explorers & settlements

Question 1

_____were built to house soldiers who protected settlers.

Answer 1

Presidio

Question 2

When the ships reached Haiti, a Spanish _________ captured one of the French vessels.

Answer 2

Privateer

Question 3

a Salle and his men built Fort St. Louis. It was not truly a settlement but a ________.

Answer 3

Stockade

Question 4

_______ were founded to convert and educate the native peoples in the Spanish culture and religion.

Answer 4

Missions

Question 5

Spain’s highest ranking official in New Spain was __________ Antonio de Mendoza.

Answer 5

Viceroy

Question 6

Coronado was a young noble who had been named governor of one of the _______ of New Spain.

Answer 6

Province

Question 7

Spanish ____________ helped to conquer and settle lands for Spain.

Answer 7

Conquistadors

Question 8

La Salle led an expedition to to ________ the entire length of the Mississippi River.

Answer 8

Navigate

Question 9

Discovered new lands thought to be Asia

Answer 9

Christopher Columbus

Question 10

Inspired explorers to sail West

Answer 10

Christopher Columbus SPAIN

Question 11

Inspired explorers to sail West

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

Built Mexico City in New Spain

Answer 12

Hernan Cortes

Question 13

1519

Answer 13

Texas was seen

Question 13

Conquered Aztec Empire for Spain

Answer 13

Hernan Cortes SPAIN

Question 13

First European to see the TX coast

Answer 13

Alonso Alvarez de PinEDA

Question 13

1718

Answer 13

Alamo was the first mission (Fray O. founded it) (San Antonio de Valero)
, Chicken War

Question 13

Drew maps of the Gulf of Mexico that were used by other explorers. He also mapped the Texas coastline

Answer 13

Alonso Alvarez de PinEDA

he drew that while seeing the coast of TX

Question 13

survivors of his expedition washed ashore in TX

Answer 13

Panfilo de Narvaez SPAIN

Question 13

first European to explore Texas

Answer 13

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 13

Got shipwrecked on the coast of Texas

Answer 13

Cabeza de Vaca SPAIN

Question 13

Wrote stories about Texas that inspired future explorers.

Answer 13

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 14

his journey began at the Age of Contact

Answer 14

Cabeza de Vaca

Question 15

Discovered Palo Duro Canyon

Answer 15

De Coronado

Question 16

Searched for Cibola and Quivira

Answer 16

De Coronado

Question 17

_____ was murdered by his own men

Answer 17

La Salle

Question 18

The only French explorer

Answer 18

La Salle

Question 19

Established Fort St. Louis

Answer 19

La Salle

His fort became a stockade

Question 20

Claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France

Answer 20

La Salle

Question 21

More than 6,000 people lived in his settlements!

Answer 21

Jose de Escandon also Father of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Question 22

Founded 20 settlements in southern Texas

Answer 22

Jose de Escandon

Question 23

Antonio Madrgil de Jesus

Answer 23

Opened the most successful mission

Question 24

Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo

Answer 24

He reopened missions that were abandoned during the chicken war.

He also Established Los Adaes as the unofficial capital of Spanish Texas.

Question 25

the name that has FATHER (Francisco Hidalgo)

Answer 25

Asked the French to reopen San Francisco de los Tejas.

Question 26

Priest that built San Francisco de los Tejas

Answer 26

Damian Massenet

also wanted to build a mission among the Caddo people of East Texas.

Question 27

Sent to drive the French from East Texas after the Chicken War.

Answer 27

Augyao

Question 28

French settlement near Matagorda Bay

Answer 28

FORT ST LOUIS

Question 29

Unofficial capital of Spanish Texas

Answer 29

LAS ADEAS

Question 30

First Mission in East Texas

Answer 30

DE TEJAS BECUASE IT SAYS TEXAS SO IT WOULD BE NO 1!

Question 31

place on the Great Plains said to be filled with gold

Answer 31

QUIVIRA

Question 32

Settlement midway between the Rio Grande and East Texas

Answer 32

DE BEXAR

bex- next- aka in between